President Trump embarks on a three-day tour of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE, three of the most influential US partners in the Gulf region.
The question of pregnant women may be one where the advisory committees may recommend more flexibility with vaccine usage than what Kennedy’s video statement seems to suggest, Schaffner said.Other areas where the panels could back greater flexibility could be for otherwise healthy people who serve as caregivers or who live with more vulnerable people who are advanced in age or are immunocompromised.
Russia has confirmed it will send a delegation to Istanbul, but Kyiv has not yet accepted the proposal.Russian drone and missile attacks on Ukraine have killed at least two people, according to officials, as Ukraine ordered the evacuation of 11 more villages in its Sumy region bordering Russia.Russian troops launched an estimated 109 drones and five missiles across Ukraine on Friday and overnight, the Ukrainian air force said on Saturday, adding that three of the missiles and 42 drones were destroyed and another 30 drones failed to reach their targets without causing damage.
The attacks came amid uncertainty over whether Kyiv will take part ina new round of peace talks
early next week in Istanbul.
In the Russian attacks on Saturday, a child was killed in a strike on the front-line village of Dolynka in the Zaporizhia region, and another was injured, Zaporizhia’s Governor Ivan Fedorov said.“According to the information that we received during spring 2023 from Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE, the products still sold in Russia have entered the Russian market via Finland and Estonia, and they have been transported by private Russian citizens. Unfortunately, it is impossible for us to stop the trade when it comes to isolated cases,” the company told Al Jazeera in a statement.
“Fazer exports some small amounts of products to Central Asia but there are no such sudden increases in these amounts, which could imply that products actually end up in Russia through these channels. If we detect that there is a customer who actively and professionally exports products, then we will intervene.”Other brands identified in this story did not respond to requests for comment.
In an analysis published in December, researchers at the Kyiv School of Economics found that customs data showed the “robust efforts” of many companies to “maintain their commitments and ethical standards”, and that companies that announced their complete exit from Russia had significantly reduced direct shipments of goods to the country.However, in some cases, a brand’s exit appears to have been largely ceremonial.